Drinking fountain bubbler



May 1940. J. F. DUNCAN 2,200,079

DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUBBLER Filed Dec. 12, 1938 )72f ATTORNEY INVENTOR Jfizvzeu9jfi7i9aarzczwqj Patented May 7, 1940 UNITED I STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,200,079 DRINKING FOUNTAIN BUBBLER.

Application December 12, 1938, Serial No. 245,130

7 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in drinking fountain bubblers and has for its object to produce a new type of fountain bubbler whereby any water emitting from the nozzle is not permitted to fall back upon the discharge spout and further to provide a bubbler wherein it is impossible for the lips of any person using the same to come in direct contact with the discharge orifice of the nozzle, all of which are in accordance with the requirements of the sanitary code recently adopted by the State of Connecticut.

One of the objects of this is to provide a fountain bubbler made of a one-piece construction and having the various parts for producing the above advantageously arranged so that the subsequent machining operations in manufacturing the bubbler be reduced to the minimum to effect a considerable savings in the cost of producing the article.

Other improvements beyond what has been stated above is that I have constructed an absolutely foolproof form of bubbler from the point of maliciously squirting water by closing the discharge outlet of the bubbler. This, as Well as the other features enumerated above, will be noted from the novel construction of the outlet portion of the bubbler and which as will be seen is formed of a single casting that is tapped and adapted for attachment to the water discharge end ofv the drinking fountain.

The construction and operation of my improved bubbler may be readily understood from the accompanying drawing together with the specification and claims which fully describe the same.

In this drawing Fig. 1 shows a detached perspective view of my improved bubbler, featuring the top or discharge end of the same.

Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the bubbler including a suggestion of one way in which it may be used. r

Fig. 3 shows a front elevation of the bubbler illustrating the course of escaping water if effort is made by application of thumb or finger by a mischievous boy to stop or deflect the flow of water, and

Fig. 4 shows a central vertical section through the bubbler taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring now to the several figures of the drawing and more particularly to the reference characters marked thereon, I0 represents the body of the bubbler, II the hexagonal hub portion which is internally tapped as at l2 for its connection to a water supply pipe l3 as shown in Fig. 3. This tapped water intake of the water bubbler leads to a passage l4 that extends substantially central up through the forwardly defiected portion of the body that terminates in a deflecting shield l5 that extends up above the outlet in the form of an arcuate guard. As will be seen in the drawing, the representation of the figure of a person drinking from the bubbler shows his approach as from the front whereas it will of course be understood that it can be used by the person presenting the side of his face adjacent the upper end of the said arcuate guard thus receiving the flow of Water from the bubbler into the side rather than the front of the mouth. The particular manner in which the device is used is of course somewhat immaterial so long as it is satisfactorily and sanitarily used.

The outlet of the passage l4 aligns with a passage I6 in a partitioning wall H, the front portion of which extends upward from the body and the rear portion ll of which extends both inward and upward from the back of the body. The top edge portion of these two partitioning walls align one with the other and also substantially with the top edge portion of the deflecting wings I8 so that should a youngster attempt to stop the flow of water from the outlet by applying his fingers or otherwise over the top edge portions of these partitioning walls and wings the water would still flow out on each side against the inner walls of the wings through the opposite side openings l9 between said walls and from there would be deflected down, see arrows Fig. 3, into a catch basin, not shown, over which the bubbler is mounted.

It should be noted that the passage I6 referred to above is so constructed as to open through on the opposite side walls of the partitioning wall l1, and produced in the manufacture of the device by selecting a drill for drilling the passage M of a diameter larger than the thickness of said Wall I1. Thus, the means providing for the passage M in the body II], the passage axially through the center of the partition wall I! for the discharge of the water from the bubbler and the two side openings in the wall [1 for preventing the malicious squirting of water therefrom, is produced by a single drilling operation.

The invention is simple in construction, meets the requirements of a strictly sanitary bubbler, can readily be applied to present forms of commercial drinking fountains and is relatively in- 1. A drinking fountain bubbler formed of one piece and comprising a body having a shield extended upwardly from its rear top portion and having a water passage extended therethrough, spaced apart aligned division walls formed integral with the body, the outlet end of the passage through the body terminating between the lower portions of the spaced apart aligned division walls, a deflecting wing extending forwardly from the shield opposite each side of the division walls,

the said spaced apart division walls forming 013- posite side openings to direct the flow of water against said deflecting wings and thence downward from the bubbler.

2. A drinking fountain bubbler comprising a body formed of one piece of metal and having a passage therethrough including means for its attachment to a drinking fountain, said body having an upwardly extended arcuate shield and a central division wall formed integral with and extending forward from the shield to the passage outlet, a wing formed integral with the shield on either side and in spaced relation to said division wall and extending forward and on opposite sides of the outlet, and a post integral with the body and extending upward in front of and in line with the said division wall, the top edge portions of said wall, post and wings being in a common plane.

3. A drinking fountain bubbler formed of one piece and comprising a body having a passage therethrough including means for its attachment to a drinking fountain and a shield extending upwardly and forwardly from its upper rear portion, a partition wall extending above said body and joined to said shield, one end of the passage having a central and two opposite side outlets in said wall, and a pair of deflecting wings formed integral with and forwardly of the lower part of said shield on opposite sides and in spaced relation to said wall to direct any liquid stream deflected thereagainst downwardly along opposite sides of the body.

4. An anti-splash drinking fountain bubbler formed of one piece and comprising a body having a passage therethrough and an arcuate shield extended from the top rear portion of said body, a partition wall extended upwardly from said body, said passage extending through said partition wall dividing it into two spaced sections providing opposite side openings and a pair of arcuate deflecting wings projecting forwardly from said shield and disposed on opposite sides of said wall, the upper edges of said wall and said wings being substantially of an equal height or on a common plane.

5. A single piece drinking fountain bubbler comprising a body having a water passage therethrough, an arcuate shield extended upwardly from the top rear portion of said body, and a pair of aligned pantitioning walls one in front and the other in spaced relation and forming a continuation of the water passage through the body to provide a pair of opposed side outlets in the walls, angularly disposed wings extended forwardly from the shield in spaced relation to'the partition walls and adapted to direct the flow of fluid deflected from the side outlets downwardly from the bubbler.

6. A drinking fountain bubbler comprising a body, a nut section and an arcuate shield as an integral unit, said body having a passageway and said nut section having a chamber communication therewith, a partition wall projecting upwardly from said body and joined to said shield, a pair of deflecting wings projecting forwardly from said shield and disposed on opposite sides of said wall, the diameter of said passageway being greater than the thickness of said wall whereby it will break through on opposite sides of said wall as the body passageway continues axially therethrough.

'7. A drinking fountain bubbler of one-piece construction comprising a body having a passageway therethrough, an enlarged connecting portion formed at one end of the body having a' shield and disposed on opposite sides of said wall, said body being disposed angularly to said body JAMES F. DUNCAN. 

